Today Show 1994 ... What is the Internet?!

Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric are completely mystified at the terminology of this wacky new Internet fad.
"Can you explain what 'Internet' is?" a much-younger Katie Couric asked Bryant Gumbel in a 1994 episode of the Today Show.

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Definitions: The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.
The typographic character @ (called the at sign) is an abbreviation of the accounting term, at the rate of (e.g. "7 widgets @ $2 = $14"). However in recent years its meaning has changed to also mean "at" in the sense of located at, especially in e-mail addresses. On some online forums @ is used to denote a reply; for instance: "@Jane" to respond to a comment Jane made earlier. @ is also used as a prefix to user names (e.g. "@username") on Twitter to denote a link or attribution.

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Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric are completely mystified at the terminology of this wacky new Internet fad. "Can you explain what 'Internet' is?" a much-younger Katie Couric asked Bryant Gumbel in a 1994 episode of the Today Show.

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Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric are completely mystified at the terminology of this wacky new Internet fad.
"Can you explain what 'Internet' is?" a much-younger Katie Couric asked Bryant Gumbel in a 1994 episode of the Today Show.